Job Description
PAYROLL OFFICER REF: HR/PO/2022 REF No: TKH/RD/11/21
Overall Purpose
Responsible for maintaining the people cost budget to ensure operations are within budget. Manage the payroll function, ensuring accurate & timely payment of employees’ salaries along with compliance to statutory requirements. Responsibilities include calculating employees’ compensation, updating our internal payroll databases and ensuring timely payments
Key responsibilities:
• Collecting daily, weekly, and monthly employee time sheets and calculating employee work hours.
• Manage the payroll processing end to end
• Prepare monthly people cost budget/actual variance analysis and reporting and communication to various functions
• Ensure accurate preparation and submission of monthly statutory payment remittances and proper filing of all statutory returns and receipts
• Maintain compliance requirements as per regulatory and company guidelines
• Accurate reconciliation & authorization of payroll reports and schedules
• Ensure timely payment of Salaries and remittance of Statutory and other authorized deductions
• Ensuring all payroll transactions are processed efficiently.
• Preparing payroll reports.
• Responding to employee questions about compensation, taxes, benefits, and deductions.
• Entering new employee data into the company database.
• Collating compensation information to facilitate participation in the annual salary surveys
• Facilitate recognition programs on annual and quarterly basis
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in HR or related field. Accounting Certification is an added advantage
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in HR, 2 of which should have been in reward/Payroll administration.
• Must be an active member of IHRM
• Must have experience working with an ERP as well as a payroll systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications including Ms Office suite.
• Efficient and results oriented
• Self-motivated person able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent Organization, analytical and communication skills
• Good eye for detail
• Ability to multi-task and undertake research initiatives.